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YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 940 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: YAK-ZYM
YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829) ,
English
  man of science, belonged to a Quaker family of Milverton, Somerset, where he was born on the 13th of June 1773, the youngest of ten children. At the age of fourteen he was acquainted with Latin,
Greek
 ,
French
 , Italian, Hebrew, Persian' and Arabic. Beginning to study
medicine
  in London in 1792, he removed to Edinburgh in 1794, and a year later went to Gottingen, where he obtained the degree of
doctor
  of physic in 1796. In 1797 he entered
Emmanuel
  College,
Cambridge
 . In the same year the death of his grand-uncle, Richard
Brocklesby
 , made him financially independent, and in 1799 he established himself as a physician in Welbeck
Street
 , London. Appointed in 18o1 professor of physics at the Royal Institution, in two years he delivered ninety-one lectures. These lectures, printed in 1807 (Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy), contain a remark-able number of anticipations of later theories. He resigned his professorship in 1803, fearing that its duties would interfere


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